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Sebasu

Advanced difficulty and starting a Tactica character

Hey all,

I’ve been paying for a while now, the last week or so with a new Fed Operations character, now at lvl 65 and the majority of story missions done. I had one before, a Science officer, as my first character (it went okay). Also an Operations Jam’Hadar. All on normal difficulty.

I’m thinking of making a new character, Tactical, and this time on Advanced. What are some of the things I should watch out for, in terms of a higher difficulty setting and as a Tactical Officer? Thanks!

Posted Aug 21, 2018, 2:48 AM UTC

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AccountantBob•

Raising the difficulty does nothing in making the game actually 'harder'. It just makes it a massive grindfest because mobs have drastically raised HP and shields, and deal more damage. And you get maybe a 1% boost in rewards as far as experience and money go.

Honestly, I recommend against it. Especially with a brand new character. But hey, if you want to give it a whirl, you can, as you can toggle difficulty easily enough.

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Bloodly•

Advanced: Increased HP/Shields(About 2x), increased damage from enemies.

As tactical, your captain skills focus on bringing more raw damage by buffing you personally, rarely buffing allies too, or debuffing enemy resist. On Ground is a similar thing, only you also have a captain skill to bring more forces to bear, in Security Escort. There's also grenades and some martial arts. Also stealth via Ambush.

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Muscly_Geek@Dark83•

Advanced is really more for replaying missions with your presumably better-geared and developed character. Just going to be a big PitA to do it with a brand new character.

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